[ Act No. 1891, May 10, 1909 ]

AN ACT AMENDING ARTICLE THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY OF THE CIVIL CODE IN FORCE IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, BY FIXING THE AGE OF MAJORITY OF TWENTY-ONE YEARS.

By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Legislature, that:

Section 1. The first paragraph of article three hundred and  twenty of the Civil Code in force in the Philippine Islands is hereby amended to read as follows:

"ACT. 320. Majority commences on attaining twenty-one years of age."

Section 2. This Act shall take effect on its passage.1aшphi1

Enacted, May 10, 1909.


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